A MANCHESTER teenager who cost jailed gun teacher Linda Walker her job was today put behind bars for eight months for launching another hate campaign against a young couple.

Nicholas Viollet, 17, from Flixton, again targeted them, bricking their car, hurling abuse at them in the street and punching his victim in a campaign that lasted months, Trafford Youth Court in Greater Manchester heard.

Weeks earlier he had been accused of being one of the "yobs" who had plagued special needs teacher Linda Walker's family home in Urmston.

Mrs Walker, 48, eventually grabbed an air pistol and fired it at the pavement when confronting the gang.

She was later jailed and lost her £30,000-a-year job after being convicted of affray and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear, after a trial in March this year.

Today it was Viollet's turn to go into custody, after being sent to a Young Offenders Institute.

Serious

The teenager reddened and mouthed: `I'm going down,' to his father as JPs told him his offences were so serious they could not consider letting him go free.

The court heard that victims Daniel Brooks, 25, a medic and his girlfriend, Nicola Raw, who is partially deaf, had been targeted at their home in Flixton.

Viollet, also from Flixton, threw a brick through the window of Ms Raw's motability Ford Focus car last December 10, and on Christmas Eve attacked and punched her boyfriend as he visited local shops.

Viollet was jailed for four months each on the assault on Mr Brooks and for threatening behaviour, to run concurrently, but given another four months, to run consecutively, for breaching the interim ASBO. He was also given another five year ASBO that will expire in 2010.